New Delhi: The Delhi police reported on Tuesday that yet another hoax call was received by the state capital: this time, it was a bomb threat sent through email for a plane that was planning to fly to Dubai from Delhi. According to the Delhi Police, the threat was received Monday morning at 9:35 am.
“On June 17 at 9:35 am, an email was received in the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) office at IGI Airport threatening a bomb on a flight from Delhi to Dubai,” the police stated. After the threat, legal actions were promptly taken, and searching for any abnormality on the aircraft was carried out successfully. No malicious activity was detected.
This is a growing phenomenon that has been associated with a series of bomb threats to different institutions in Delhi. Last week, some art galleries and other museums in the city also received similar threats, which the museum management later learnt were but fake alarms. The local police informed that they received bomb threats through e-mail around 10-15 museums, where among them the Railway Museum Delhi. Police authorities quickly reacted to these threats, but later, the police discovered no existence of any bomb in the listed facilities.
The inflation in false bomb threat incidents has been seen recently in the national capital, where many schools, colleges, hospitals, and airports have been targets. In May, two colleges of Delhi University, namely, Ramjas and Shkiarpuri Colleges, received fake bomb threats. In fact, over 100 schools in the Delhi-NCR region received similar threats in the same month. Such an increase in hoax bomb threats alarmed the High Court and left the Delhi government in urgent need of providing a detailed report in April to simplify incidents in private schools.